Hi,

Thanks Scott.  What exactly does a Braille display do?

Later...

Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

> On Nov 19, 2014, at 14:27, Scott Berry <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Yes there are also braille displays.  You can get those through Humanware and 
> Freedom Scientific.  You can also get them through Baum.  There are others 
> but this is the one that come to mind right now.
> 
> 
>> On Nov 19, 2014, at 2:23 PM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Thanks for all your answers so far.  I’m assuming from your responses that 
>> Duxbury is software and Eileen and David offered two embossers, the Juliette 
>> and the Tiger.  Doing some Internet searching resulted in this site 
>> 
>> http://www.cucat.org/projects/louis/
>> 
>> about the Louis Braille package which appears to have a Mac version, 
>> although I’m not sure of it’s quality.
>> 
>> By the sounds of things, I’ll need to either purchase a Windows machine, not 
>> what I really want to do, or put BootCamp onto a Mac and go from there.  As 
>> long as the embosser will connect.  Scott, at this point, they haven’t given 
>> me much info on what specifically they wish to do, so, I’m not sure that I 
>> can properly answer your questions.
>> 
>> Are there other options when using Braille other than a physical embosser?  
>> Sorry, if this is a dumb question as I’ve not dealt much with Braille 
>> peripherals.  I was a stubborn child, didn’t  learn Grade 1 Braille until I 
>> was a teenager, but really have only used it for playing card games and 
>> demonstrations to various groups.
>> 
>> All help is appreciated.
>> 
>> Later...
>> 
>> Tim Kilburn
>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada
>> 
>>> On Nov 19, 2014, at 14:04, David Chittenden <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> My current favourite braille embosser is the Tiger from View Plus. 
>>> Unfortunately, it only works with Windows. Tiger has the best tactile 
>>> graphics I have used.
>>> 
>>> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
>>> Email: [email protected]
>>> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>> On 20 Nov 2014, at 05:51, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> 
>>>> I have been asked to recommend a Braille Embosser and necessary 
>>>> translation software for a student in one of our schools.  Do any of the 
>>>> Braille users on this list have any recommendations for me?
>>>> 
>>>> Later...
>>>> 
>>>> Tim Kilburn
>>>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada
>>>> 
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